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Camelopard wishes you a comfortable stay in your Thousand Oaks California hotel. When you get the chance, stay in some of the famous, luxurious and/or historic hotels of your destinations. The New Stanley Hotel in Nairobi, the Villa D'Este on Lake Como, Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d'Antibes, the Langham Shanghai Xintiandi in Shanghai, the Four Seasons Hotel Macao Cotai Strip in Macau, Claridge's in London and the Goldeneye Hotel (once the home of James Bond author Ian Fleming) in Jamaica's Oracabessa Bay. are among the classic or luxury hotels of the world.

Attractions and Sights/Places to See in California

The magical movie studios of Hollywood; the human spectacle of Venice Beach;Santa Barbara, the Californian Riviera; the almost mythical suburbs of Los Angeles, including Beverly Hills;San Francisco with the Golden Gate Bridge; the original Disneyland in Anaheim; the notorious Alcatraz Prison;Lake Tahoe (the Nevada shore of which was occupied by the fictional Ponderosa Ranch), still offering both winter and summer sports; the killer whales, dolphins and other creatures of Sea World in San Diego; the resort of Palm Springs; the magnificent scenery of the Big Sur coastal drive, from which sea life such as blue whales are sometimes seen; the Danish architecture and culture of Solvang;San Diego's world famous zoo; Dante's View over the scorching Death Valley; and the state capital, Sacramento, are among the attractions of California.

The spectral white deer of San Diego's Presidio Park; Santa Paula's horned, white and hairy anthropoid, the Billiwhack Monster; the beautiful but sad Amanda, said to haunt Room 325 of the Vagabond Motel, San Diego; the male phantom of San Diego's luxurious US Grant Hotel; the Mennonite Lady in White of Adelaida Cemetery, who on Friday nights puts flowers on the grave of a child; the haunted fourth floor window and other mysteries at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles;cowboys still searching for their gold in Rios Canyon, San Diego; and the ghostly barefoot woman of Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, are among the true ghost stories, myths and legends of California.

The little phantom girl who knocks on the door of Room 42 and the spectral madame of Room 33 who are among the ghosts of the San Remo Hotel, San Francisco; the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe, claimed as employees by the Red River Lumber Company of Westwood; the ghost who still makes phone calls from Room 1007 of the Paso Robles Hotel, San Francisco; the wraiths of Camp Comfort County Park, which include a phantom horsewoman, a charred man, a headless man riding a motor bike, a bloody bride and a demonic hound that watches over the tomb of a vampire; Kabar, Rudolf Valentino's Great Dane, who still lollops about the Los Angeles Pet Cemetery; San Diego's haunted Horton Grand Hotel; the reputedly haunted Room 217 of the Marriott Hotel, Long Beach; and the spirit of schoolteacher Miss Mary Lake in Room 410 of the Queen Anne Hotel in San Francisco, which was once a girls' school, are other legendary tales of ghosts and haunted places in California.

The sirens, serpents and flying monsters that once inhabited Santa Barbara Island and which may, perhaps, be reawakened one day; the reputedly haunted Renaissance Los Angeles Airport hotel, part of the Marriott chain; the blue, brain-like ETs of Palos Verdes; the haunted parking garage and eighteenth floor lounge of the Los Angeles Airport Marriott; the many ghosts of Elysian Park, Los Angeles, including a headless hound and a Lady in White; the phantom policeman of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, who hands out real but not legal speeding tickets; the haunted swimming pool of Ramona Convent Secondary School in Alhambra, where bathers have their legs grabbed by unseen hands (the nun in white, in the library, is more harmless); and the ghostly sailors of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet in Alameda, are more weird folklore associated with California.

The many hauntings of the Queen Mary in Long Beach, which include a Lady in White in the reception area, children playing in the swimming pool, a man killed in the engine room and the mystery of room B340; the spirits of Sacramento City Cemetery, including a little girl and a pit bull terrier; the ghostly couple who haunt the Marriott Anaheim Fairfield Inn, Anaheim;Tahoe Tessie, Lake Tahoe's answer to Lake Champlain's Champ and to Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster; the spectral prisoners of Alcatraz; the spirits of Kate Morgan, a little boy and girl, the mistress of a millionaire, a Victorian lady who likes to dance and a former caretaker in San Diego's famous Hotel Del Coronado (used in the movie Some Like it Hot and remarkable for its Victorian wooden architecture); the bigfoot or sasquatch of the northern forests; the spectral woman who still supervises the Phoenix Inn oriental restaurant in Alhambra; and the ghost of Claudia in the Mansions Hotel, San Francisco, are yet more strange folktales of California.

The United States of America is famous for the comfort of its hotels. It is well-known that in Europe you should see London, Paris, Rome, Naples, Florence, Venice and Athens but in the USA you should see Houston, Detroit, Lake Tahoe, Fort Lauderdale, Anchorage, Sacramento, Chicago, Indianapolis, Sitka, Juneau, Albuquerque, Corpus Christi, Seattle, Fairbanks, Las Vegas, Skagway, Minneapolis, Savannah, Atlantic City, Phoenix, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Miami, Salt Lake City, Santa Fe, San Francisco, Honolulu, San Diego, St Louis, Dallas, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Philadelphia and Washington DC. Then perhaps you can say that you are familiar with the United States of America. The wild west town of Tombstone, Yellowstone National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, the Disney resorts, Hawaiian volcanoes such as Mauna Loa, the Everglades, Niagara Falls, the beach at Waikiki in Hawaii, the California coastline, the Grand Canyon, Route 66, the Arctic wilderness of Alaska, Mount Rushmore, the Adirondacks, Bryce Canyon, the Ozarks, Glacier Bay National Park, the Okefenokee Swamp, Yosemite National Park, Native American nations such as the Navajo and the Hopi, the Florida Keys, the plantations and bayous of the Mississippi Delta, the Appalachians, Mount McKinley and fabulous wildlife in Denali National Park, rodeos and Marvellous scenery and sea life in Kenai Fjords National Park are other places, sights or events that can justify your claim to know America. We at camelopard.com wish you a pleasant journey in the USA.

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